Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disaster, conflict and society in crises : everyday politics of crisis response / Dorothea Hilhorst -- Discourses of war, peace and peace-building in Sri Lanka / Georg Frerks -- The political history of disaster management in Mozambique / Luis Artur -- The de-disasterization of food crises : structural reproduction or change in policy development and response options? : a case study from Ethiopia / Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen -- The politics of "catastrophization" / Jeroen Warner -- Conflict, governance and institutional multiplicity : parallel governance in Kosovo and Chiapas (Mexico) / Gemma van der Haar and Merel Heijke -- Two decades of ordering refugees : the development of institutional multiplicity in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp / Bram Jansen -- Conflict minerals in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) : planned interventions and unexpected outcomes / Jeroen Cuvelier -- Institutional multiplicity in post-conflict reconstruction : the case of a local church in Bunjei, Angola / Maliana Serrano -- Flying below the radar : inter-ethnic marriages in Sri Lanka's war zone / Timmo Gaasbeek -- Humanitarian space as arena : a perspective on the everyday politics of aid / Dorothea Hilhorst and Bram J. Jansen -- The politics of peacebuilding through strengthening civil society / Mathijs van Leeuwen -- The everyday politics of disaster risk reduction in central Java, Indonesia / Annelies Heijmans -- Post-conflict recovery and linking relief, rehabilitation and development in Angola : from crisis to normality? / Hilde van Dijkhorst -- Doing good being nice? : aid legitimacy and mutual imaging of aid workers and aid recipients / Dorothea Hilhorst, Gemma Andriessen, Lotte Kemkens and Loes Weijers.